Re: [tied] Harold, the flying sheep (How many laryngeals?)

*h2owi- (h3-?) reffers to the female (ewe) or to the generic animal (sheep)
?
It's usually stated that h2ewi- "bird"" is cognate of PIW words for "egg".

Joao SL
Rio

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...>
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Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 12:56 PM
Subject: [tied] Harold, the flying sheep (How many laryngeals?)


> I've been thinking (and I'm half serious), that if we have *h2ewi-
> "bird", and (without *h3) *h2owi- "sheep", the "sheep"-word would have
> a good chance of being an Ablaut-variant of the "bird"-word, which
> would mean that Harold, the flying sheep from the Monty Python sketch
> (see, e.g., <http://www.clal.ca/Flying_Sheep.html>) would have been
> successful in PIE times...
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